Marcelo Davanço

Marcelo Davanço is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group in the CNST. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his doctoral studies, he worked with InP-based photonic integrated circuits incorporating 2D photonic crystals. After obtaining his Ph.D., he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he worked with optical metamaterials, organic microcavities with strong exciton-photon coupling, and hemispherical organic focal plane arrays. Marcelo is currently working with Kartik Srinivasan on the development of new tools and methods for optical spectroscopy of nanoscale systems.

• Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling in an Organic Single Crystal Microcavity, S. Kéna-Cohen, M. Davanço, and S. R. Forrest, Physical Review Letters 101, 116401 (2008)
• The complex Bloch bands of a 2D plasmonic crystal displaying isotropic negative refraction, M. Davanço, Y. Urzhumov, and G. Shvets, Optics Express 15, 9681-9691 (2007).
• Nanofabrication and Characterization of Subwavelength Metamaterials for Negative-index Propagation at Near-infrared Wavelengths, M. Davanço, X. Zhang, S. R. Forrest, Y. Urzhumov, G. Shvets, Proceedings of 2007 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference, October 21-25, 2007, Buena Visat, FL: 325 (2007).
• Broadband Notch Filters Based on Quasi-2D Photonic Crystal Waveguides for InP-based Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits, M. Davanço, A. Xing, J. Raring, E. L. Hu, and D. J. Blumenthal, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 12, 1164-1174, (2006).
• Detailed characterization of slow and dispersive propagation near a mini-stop-band of an InP photonic crystal waveguide, M. Davanço, A. Xing, J. Raring, E. L. Hu, and D. J. Blumenthal, Optics Express 13, 4931-4938 (2005).